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LOT 2587
Natural History - Historic 'Brazil' Spectacular Rutile in Quartz Crystal Specimen
2 5/8 in. (80 grams, 67 mm).
Comprising a wonderful star of radiating rutile crystals within a very clear quartz crystal, collection number 600; with an old identification card from Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd, paid £70.00. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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LOT 2587
Natural History - Historic 'Brazil' Spectacular Rutile in Quartz Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Natural History - Historic Cut and Polished Agate Geode Half
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Large specimen with light blue, white, colourless and pale blue crystals, collection number 246. 2 kg total, 16 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Fossil Leaves and Snout Beetle in Matrix
Eocene Period, circa 48 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Rectangular sedimentary block with embedded leaves with evidence for damage by weevils feeding on the lakeside vegetation. 702 grams, 13.7 cm
From Green River shales, Wyoming, U.S.A. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. -
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Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Woolly Mammoth Tusk
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470
A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand. 2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand
From the Siberian Tundra. From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material.
